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Those Old Radio Shows

Corus Radio Network

Those Old Radio Shows bring you back to a much simpler time when the early days of radio were filled with comedy, drama and mystery programs. Unwind with a light-hearted program or become engrossed in a whodunnit. Those Old Radio Shows has something for everyone.

Location:

Calgary, AB

Genres:

Nostalgia

Description:

Those Old Radio Shows bring you back to a much simpler time when the early days of radio were filled with comedy, drama and mystery programs. Unwind with a light-hearted program or become engrossed in a whodunnit. Those Old Radio Shows has something for everyone.

Language:

English


Episodes

Mystery Is My Hobby - Allen Fisher Is Murdered

3/27/2024
Mystery Is My Hobby - Allen Fisher Is Murdered 1940s Glenn Langan & Norman Field Mining engineer Alan Fisher has been murdered, apparently by his lawyer who is in love with his wife. The wife has a few schemes of her own.

Duration:00:24:52

The Haunting Hour - Assignment Death

3/26/2024
The Haunting Hour - Assignment Death Barry Kroeger Horror doesn't always come wrapped up in a haunted house with the wind howling outside. Sometimes it walks along behind you, breathes down your neck and whispers something about a slug of lead in your back. Editor, Dick Ryan, is here with a scoop that never got into the newspaper... It was late afternoon when Ellen and another photographer, Larry Nelson, walked into his office...

Duration:00:27:38

Dramas of the Courts - The Cruise of the Castanet

3/22/2024
Dramas of the Courts - The Cruise of the Castanet Grace Gibson an American Australian. Springbok radio production The captain has been murdered, this is the axe, that did it. Whoever had done it, must be still aboard. We don't know who's our friend or foe.

Duration:00:26:53

Spy Catcher - Game Set Match

3/21/2024
Spy Catcher - Game Set Match 1960 Benard Archard Spy Catcher penned by Robert Barr, and starred Bernard Archard as Pinto.

Duration:00:27:21

X Minus One - The Defenders

3/20/2024
X Minus One - The Defenders 1956 Lydia Bruce, Warren Parker, Grant Richards, Mike Ingram and Stan Early East and West make war above ground with robots while both sides live underground... or do they?

Duration:00:30:41

Suspense - Misfire

3/19/2024
Suspense - Misfire 1957 Director & Producer-William N. Robson Jack Carson, Norman Alden, John Dehner, Barney Philips William Conrad, Sam Pierce & Eddie Firestone "Misfire". A well-written story (by a CBS sound effects man Tom Hanley) about an atomic-bomb test that fails to detonate because of a small wrench caught in the door.

Duration:00:25:49

The Lux Radio Theatre - Top O' The Morning

3/15/2024
The Lux Radio Theatre - Top O' The Morning 1952 Announcer-John Milton Kennedy Ann Blyth, Dennis Day, Barry Fitzgerald Dennis Day solves the theft of the Blarney Stone!

Duration:01:01:01

The Adventures of Rocky Starr - Destination Venus Episodes 3 & 4

3/14/2024
The Adventures of Rocky Starr - Destination Venus Episodes 3 & 4 1950s Rocky is portrayed by Howard Craven, and Joe McCormick played Mitch his friend. Rocky is danger!

Duration:00:22:03

The Shadow - Hypnotic Death - AKA - Design for Murder

3/13/2024
The Shadow - Hypnotic Death - AKA - Design for Murder 1939 Bill Johnstone and Agnes Moorehead The Shadow uses his hypnotic power to cloud men's mind so that they cannot see him, but this time Lamont Cranston encounters a more devious hypnotist.

Duration:00:29:33

Voyage Of the Scarlet Queen - The Jewel Thieves and the Straw-Filled Dummy (AFRTS)

3/12/2024
Voyage Of The Scarlet Queen - The Jewel Thieves and The Straw-Filled Dummy (AFRTS) 1947 Elliot Lewis as Philip Carney and Ed Max as Red Gallagher, w-Gil Doud and Bob Tallman Log File: Departed Hong Kong, China at 9:00pm after breakdown in schedule.

Duration:00:29:32

The Sealed Book - Escape by Death

3/8/2024
The Sealed Book - Escape By Death 1945 Philip Clarke that “the keeper" of the book Directed and produced by Jock MacGregor. Two old maids believe their Neice and Nephew are trying to kill them.

Duration:00:30:40

Pursuit - In The North Sea

3/7/2024
Pursuit - In the North Sea 1950 John Dehner, Irene Tedrow, Terry Kilburn, Eric Snowden, Dan Tilden, Byron Kane and Tom Hall Pursuit, a criminal strike and fades quickly back into the shadows of his own dark world, and then the man from Scotland Yard. The famous Peter Black and the dangerous relentless pursuit, when Man hunts Man.

Duration:00:30:13

The World's Greatest Mysteries/Intrigue - The Suicide Club

3/6/2024
Those Old Radio Shows 900 CHML-Weekend Evenings March 5th, 2024 #Podcast The World's Greatest Mysteries Intrigue - The Suicide Club Host-Basil Rathbone w-Marius Goring 1946 "Would you do me the offer of eating one of these tarts, I've eaten 27 of them since five o'clock. Every time my offer is rejected, I insist of eating another. I assure you there's nothing wrong with them".

Duration:00:28:17

Lux Radio Theatre - Alexander Graham Bell

3/5/2024
Those Old Radio Shows Tuesday March 5th, 2024 Lux Radio Theatre - Alexander Graham Bell 1945 Announcer-John M. Kennedy Host-Mitchell Leisen Don Amechie, Joan Dupree, Charles Seel, Francis x Bushman, Herb Lytton, Tommy Cooke, Peter McVey, Dickie Meyers & Norman Fields The story of the invention of the telephone. There is lots of kidding around in the studio after the show. The story was produced on again on April 26, 1955.

Duration:00:56:15

The Adventures of Phyl Cole - The Dead Magician & Missing Masterpiece

3/1/2024
The Adventures of Phyl Cole - The Dead Magician & Missing Masterpiece Phyl Cole a Woman criminal ologist 1937 Announcer-Bud Collyer Episode-1-Phyl (Phyllis Cole), who is attending the performance, with her boyfriend witnesses a shooting, they leap to the stage, and questions theatre staff. She solves the crime before the police show up. In episode-2-Phyl identifies a thief of a famous Missing painting, she solves the mystery involving a new death-ray gun.

Duration:00:30:09

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - King Phillip's Golden Salver

2/29/2024
Leap Year Broadcast - Feb 29th, 2024 #Podcast The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - King Philip's Golden Salver Feb 29, 1948 John Stanley and Alfred Shirley A strange disappearance of elaborate Golden Salver.

Duration:00:30:42

Mr. District Attorney - The Case of the Money Machine

2/28/2024
Wednesday February 28th, 2024 #Podcast Mr. District Attorney - The Case of the Money Machine 1951 David Brian Frank Kent is missing from the asylum.

Duration:00:30:20

Dangerous Assignment - Pirate Loot

2/27/2024
Those Old Radio Shows 900 CHML-Weekend Evenings Tuesday February 27th, 2024 #Podcast Dangerous Assignment - Pirate Loot 1950 Brian Donlevy Steve Mitchell travels to Trinidad to find himself a diver on the "Sea Witch," searching for a modern sunken treasure.

Duration:00:30:12

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar - The Arrow Craft Matter

2/23/2024
Those Old Radio Shows 900 CHML-Weekend Evenings February 23rd, 2024 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar - The Arrow Craft Matter 1950 Stars-Edmond O'Brien, Jean Bates, Howard McNear, Clayton Post, Harry Bartell, Hy Averback, John McIntire & Jeanette Nolan A series of yacht sinkings has led to eleven deaths... and then one more; a beautiful woman!

Duration:00:31:38

Consider Your Verdict - The Case Against Ann Hale

2/22/2024
Those Old Radio Shows 900 CHML-Weekend Evenings February 22nd, 2024 Consider Your Verdict - The Case Against Ann Hale Arsenic (1966) Springbok radio Broadcasting South Africa & Australia A different court case every week

Duration:00:29:43